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Vitamin D intake and risk of cardiovascular disease in US men and women
Q Sun, L Shi, EB Rimm... - ... American journal of ..., 2011 - Am Soc Nutrition Background: Although studies have linked vitamin D deficiency to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), evidence regarding whether vitamin D intake from foods or supplements is prospectively associated with lower CVD risk in healthy humans is limited ...
1 From the Departments of Nutrition (QS, EBR, ELG, and FBH) and Epidemiology (EBR, ELG, FBH, and JEM), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts–Boston, Boston, MA (LS); the Channing Laboratory (QS, EBR, ELG, FBH, and JEM) and Division of Preventive Medicine (JEM and KMR), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
↵2 Supported by research grants CA87969, HL34594, HL35464, CA55075, and HL088521 from the National Institutes of Health. QS was supported by career development award K99HL098459 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. FBH is a recipient of an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. JEM received funding from the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, and other NIH institutes and agencies) to conduct the VI Tamin D and Omeg A-3 Tria L (VITAL)—a large-scale randomized trial of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids in the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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